Peet at nae, At2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 19, 2006 ‘ e » Sa ne ETL ETRE To A ‘LIBERAL’ MLA is worried there’s not enough accountability “in how . $100 million will be spent to « improve _ native _ self- government and services. last ‘year’s provincial gov- ‘ernment surplus. ~ . “There’s’ no. -account- ability back to the taxpayer “and I find that a little unset- “thing,” said-MacKay. “Once ' the cheque is issued, govern- “ment has no control over it.” The trust. plan does ‘call 7 for a board of directors, the: ~ majority of whom would be > native representatives, to ad- | “minister the money., . = .* And although, there is a requirement to" file reports Be -Four-way stop — of ~—-work starts soon " oe TERRACE PAVING has been named as the main contractor ; on the Project t to improve the Hwy 16- -37 four-way stop. a elt ‘wants. to, start: -work the: beginning of May. and be fin- . . . ished by the third week of the month, Terrace Paving opera- : tions manager Brian Krause said last week. a and financial statements, MacKay doesn’t think there is any mechanism to gauge performance. . . “How does the taxpayer a know the money is being “Dennis MacKay, who - .. Fepresents - the. Bulkley Val- , ley-Stikine riding, - ‘says the | province. ‘won’t have any © - .‘control over the. New Rela- — “ tionship Trust. financed by well spent? I would prefer that this fund have,to report -back to the legislature,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong. We need to do more to improve | the lot of native people but it is the accountability here that is the issue,’ MacKay added. He said accountability and performance evaluation is important for native peo- ple who are expected to ben- efit from the $100 million. The New Relationship -The project: involves grinding up the pavement on the ap- he said.. 7 ‘proaches to the four-way stop and putting new asphalt down, . “There’ Il be new [traffic] islands and the. tum Janes will . - be widened,” Krause added. os The: ‘majority ’of the work will take place from 8 p. m. to7_ am. each’ day. so the intersection can be used with minimal — disruption during the day.” “We have three weeks. to 5 do it, but if all goes well, it rit take a week and a half” ” said Krause. .- yo Transportation’ ministry official Don Ramsay : said the - “Terrace Paving contract is worth $212,000. 7 , _ Another company, ‘Wescana’ Electric, will be* putting i in | < Rew lights’ as an. added way of i improving the intersection’ s _ . Visibility. : -... 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